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About the Role
Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to support the delivery of cost management services across commercial real estate construction projects. This role involves managing project cost planning, procurement, commercial management, cost control, and financial reporting throughout the project lifecycle. The ideal candidate will possess strong estimating and quantity surveying expertise, excellent stakeholder management skills, and experience with complex commercial, corporate workplace, mixed-use, retail, hospitality, or office developments. The successful candidate will be driven, collaborative, and committed to promoting Turner & Townsend's purpose and values while delivering exceptional outcomes for clients.
Responsibilities
- Advise clients on strategies, manage vendor prequalification, assess proposals, bids, and bid leveling documents, make final recommendations, chair bid interviews, and manage the appointment process.
- Manage estimating services by developing project estimates, reviewing junior team members' estimations, presenting estimates to clients, presenting value engineering recommendations and risk assessments, meeting with vendors to review and validate costs, and reviewing estimates using benchmark data.
- Manage cost reporting by establishing schedules, reviewing cost reports and forecasts, reviewing project budgets and spend forecasts with clients, developing and maintaining a commercial risk register, and hosting periodic meetings with project teams and vendors.
- Manage the cost control process by reviewing payment application assessments, liaising with project managers to recommend contractor entitlements, reviewing vendor change order requests and making recommendations, and using dispute resolution procedures.
- Manage and monitor the invoicing process.
- Benchmark performance against other successful commissions.
- Manage all facets of the final accounting process, post-contract audits, and account close-outs.
- Hold post-contract reviews with clients to establish lessons learned and create training manuals.
- Develop procedures for project handover.
- Utilize Bid Analysis Sheets, Change Control Forms, Cost Estimating Software, and Take-off Software for all duties.
- Adhere to SOX control responsibilities where applicable.
Requirements
- Minimum 3-5 years of relevant experience in a cost management role within the construction industry.
- Experience supporting cost management on medium or large-sized construction projects.
- Construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred.
- Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, including different procurement routes, value management, and value engineering.
- Strong communication skills.
Skills
- Estimating
- Quantity Surveying
- Stakeholder Management
- Cost Planning
- Procurement
- Commercial Management
- Cost Control
- Financial Reporting
- Value Engineering
- Risk Management
- Communication
Location
- On-site presence may change depending on client needs.
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3-5 years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or a related field.
Salary/Compensations
- $120K-$150K USD
Benefits
- Bonuses
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
About the Company
- Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
- Works with clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources.
- Capabilities include program, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
- Majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc.
- Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier program, project and cost management offering.
Equal Opportunity
- Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer.
- Celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
- Actively encourages applications from all sectors of the community.
- All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
- It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process.
- No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.
- Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees.
- To be an authorized Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, a formal written agreement must be in place and the agency must be invited by the Recruitment Team to submit candidates for review.